Can you imagine if a 9/11 type situation were to happen today, boy there would be a lot of hard decisions to make.
I know Canada sent firefighters to California, and there are US firefighters here in Canada right now helping with our fires…… and I know it’s the right thing to be doing on both sides but if there was a similar 9/11 event…. I wouldn’t want to send help from Canada. But we would. But I really wouldn’t want us to.
Sorry, hard pass - don’t like playing with cheaters.
Level playing field? Yeah sure. To give every proponent equal opportunity, firms will be given a fair chance. On the other hand, companies represented by people who make mob-boss like threats won’t be considered as that disrupts the level playing field. Whoops, you just disqualified all American companies, Congressman. What a shame.
“And by level, we mean in our favor. Anything else is unfair.”
“A message to partners: don’t do as we do or we will destroy you”
Global-scale abusive relationship mentality. That’s what you get when people like Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan become the new idols of men.
They are going to destroy themselves.
Fuck you and we won’t see you tomorrow.
They really believe they are the center of the world
When you’ve spent your entire life immersed in American Exceptionalism, acknowledging that other countries have valid interests can be a difficult concept to grasp.
Which right now they are. All the tech for the west comes from America, they have by far the largest market in the world and everyone wants access to it.
All the tech for the west comes from Taiwan foundaries, Chinese and South Korean factories, South Indian offshore software service consultancies and made with Japanese components fabricated from Chinese rare earth elements from American companies with a surprising number of subsidiary headquarters in Ireland.
The US hasn’t been the biggest market for a decade, and everybody wants out.
At this point, its mostly just a few software giants like Microsoft, which do have alternatives available. Everything else is just companies owned by Americans, but doing all their design and manufacturing in Taiwan or other parts of Asia. Intel is the only exception I know of, but they’re rapidly shrinking at this point and show no signs of ever being competitve again.
We’re gonna destroy you, utterly.
Is that a fucking threat ?
Level playing field? Sure why not?
Favor American businesses over health or local businesses? Hahahaha no
Threats? Nevermind. Let’s throw that out the window. Fuck you
Even as an American, why do these dumbasses think threats will make people more likely to be favorable? At some point, people are going to just be like “all right fam good luck with that”
Let me know when that happens. The west is so addicted to America it’s pathetic might as well be one country.
Well, “the west” is a contiguous land mass which makes trading much easier than going across the ocean, so there’s that…
I wouldn’t go so far as to call it an addiction.
They are playing to the masses, not the world. They all want a golden ticket in the Trump empire. Getting in line to be stepped on is certainly a mood, but it’s what y’all are into these days?!
If you could destroy them without it, why do you even need a level playing field? 🤔
Let me get this straight:
- You don’t want a trade war, which your country started
- You want access to our markets to flood our shelves with your subsidized and unregulated products
- If we don’t let you in, you’ll continue to wage economic war on us
English was not the only thing they learned from the British. But just like Imperial units, the 21st century isn’t as forgiving on being this much of a simpleton.
Nope, you are going to destroy yourselves. You need us, we don’t need you. And a level playing field is just that, both sides get a fair share. Do you understand how that works?
Imagine the crying in the USA if we, Canada, stopped sending softwood lumber, crude, steel, and aluminum, electricity, potash.
Forget about rebuilding after a hurricane or tornado. Good luck driving a car or fueling a war machine. Lots of hungry people with reduced yields due to less potash.
Yeah okay, but more importantly, does anyone else feel like there’s something weird about his face? Like, as if his skin is rubber and that’s why he can’t make real looking facial expressions?
